Applying personal settings takes forever, sometimes

[Dennis]

I think this is related to policies but I'm not sure.
After users login (XP SP1) to our 2000 domain sometimes
they proceed directly to the desktop no problem and other
times it can take 10 minutes while it just says applying
personal settings. I am not using roaming profiles but am
redirecting my documents to their home folder, offline
files is disabled. I'm not really doing anything fancy
with the user policy just locking down the desktop
(students). Any ideas?

Thanks

Dennis

 

[Alan Sterling \(MSFT\)]

Hi Dennis:
You may want to look into:
832161 WebClient: A Long Delay Occurs When You Logon to Domain from Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=832161
Disable the web client service

Thanks

 

[Bobby Davies]

Does it matter that this is a windows 2000 machine?

Thanks

 

[Department of Medicine]

We get the same type of occurrences here as well. So far we are looking
at the user hitting a particular domain controller that might be getting
bogged down at the same time. We have as of yet been unable to
accurately track this problem as it is completely random and when it
does occur users are not particularly fast at reporting it.

This occurs mostly on Windows 2000 workstation for us.

Randy

 

[Bobby Davies]

Yeah it is kinda a pain in the butt to tell you the truth. Hopefully someone
can shed some light on it.
"Department of Medicine"

 

[Buz [MSFT]]

Hello Dennis,

Most cases with these symptoms are DNS or WINS related. I would advise that
you attempt to reproduce the issue and then remove any WINS servers from the
TCP/IP properties of a client and make sure this client only points to one
Windows 2000 DC for DNS (for simplicity) then see if the long logons still
occur. Also this issue can occur if the 2000 DC itself points to an ISP in
its TCP/IP settings for primary or secondary DNS.

237675 Setting Up the Domain Name System for Active Directory
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=237675

Buz Brodin
MCSE NT4 / Win2K
Microsoft Enterprise Domain Support

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[Guest]

Thanks for the tip about the web client. Unfortunately
the link is dead on MS site. I've searched on the title
and cannot find this info anywhere. I see that the web
client isn't really needed for our applications but I was
hoping to see the tech details. Do you happen to have a
copy you could forward me ? dfbradley@att.*nospam*.net

Thanks again for the help

Dennis